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John Locke:

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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Mark Twain:

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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James Noble, in the voice of Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling, and Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

Eugene: I don’t have the qualifications to be President.

Benson: Never stopped anybody before.

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Kazuo Ishiguro :

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

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Charlotte Bronte:

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

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Bob Cesca (about 10 minutes into the show, if you want to listen for context):

Social media is all about data-mining.

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Valerie Jarrett:

Our democracy… is only as good as the American people demand it should be.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

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Rex Stout:

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person.

Stout, Rex, The Rubber Band in a dual volume with The Red Box (New York: Bantam Dell, 2009) p. 44.

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Victor Hugo:

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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Petrarch:

How difficult it is to save the ship of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

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Dwight Eisenhower:

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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Harry Reasoner:

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.

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Hugo Grotius:

Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

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Vera Marshe, in the voice of Mrs. Franklin:

Nature’s wonderful. A seed grows up and becomes a flower. A girl grows up and becomes a woman. A boy grows up and what does he become? A boy.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

War doesn’t mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

Stout, Rex, Over My Dead Body (New York: Bantam, 1994) p. 119

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Wilkie Collins:

The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason.

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Jean-Paul Sartre:

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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Edgar Allan Poe:

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

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